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* \ y ' : The Terrace Bay-Schreiber News is published every Wednesday by: Laurentian Publishing Co. Ltd., Box 579, Terrace Bay, Ontario, POT 2W0. Telephone: (807) 825-3747. - Second Class Malling Permit Number 0867 Single copies 35 cents Subscription rates per year in town $14.00 retire ee ee ee pagyta as bei = ee - ; : I Bi no a Be ee Julie Wright ember of Ontario Community 4 Newpapers Association and The Tinaies in HO eS PRS. oe ek ont Gayle Fournier condgign Colne nit beaters PROGUCHON CO-OTINtO leo. «212 snes conics es icdpaesntbencaivs Nancy Parkin -- Association Prohibit advertising? Prohibiting Tobacco Advertising- The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) believes that the health of Canadians would be improved by speedy passage by Parliament of Bill C-51, the Tobacco Products Control Act. The. 'Bill,:-introduced - last spring by the Hon. Jake Epp, minister of National Health OW, CANADA, and Welfare, would eliminate advertising of tobacco products and introduce other mea- Sures to reduce smoking. There is no doubt in the minds of physi- cians that smoking, that is responsible for more than 35,000 deaths every year, is the leading cause of preventable death and dis- ease in Canada. The CMA, which supports @fforts to eradi- cate this killer, has asked Canada's 56,000 physicians to contact their MPs to voice their support for Bill C-51 as a citizen and as a health care professional. While I believe it is the responsibility of the medical profession to show leader- ship on this important health issue, I think every Canadian should express their opinion on Bill €-51 to their elected rep- resentatives. I urge readers to join the doctors of Canada and make their views on prohibiting _ tobacco advertising known to their MP and USS WE STOOP ON GUARD FOR THEE | nS i< 6 Li HY nt D., ------------ this newspaper, Information on who your MP is, the cor- rect address and telephone number is avail-. able by calling the toll-free number, 1- 800-267-3800. Yours truly, Dr. Athol L. Roberts, of the president . Association. Canadian Medical Letters to the editor Letters to the editor are encour- aged. They can discuss any topic but ave subject: to alteration; and content, editor. in length at the discretion of the Please send your signed letters to: The News, Ontario, POT 2wo, Pale BOX S79, Terrace Bay, or drop them off at. the News, located centrally in Simcoe Plaza. Obsessed with fatness By Arthur Black We live in a world obsessed with fatness. Two-thirds of the human inhabitants of Planet Earth (your pudgy correspondent included) spend a good portion of their waking hours devising fascistic exercise regimens and sadistic diet stratagems to melt some suet off their frames. The bottom third of the earth- ling population would dearly like to put ON some fat, but that's another, sadder story. The bookstore shelves in this part of the world are eternally awash with diet books -- every- thing from Scarsdale and Stillman to Dr. Cooper's Fabulous Fructose Diet -- the same shelves also -- groan under the weight of exercise manuals. You can find tomes on running, jogging, hiking, walking, biking, body building, 5 BX, 10 BX...a body could burn off a sig- nificant raft of calories and firm up his bi's, tri's and quad's just by carrying home an armload of exercise books two or three times a week. But it doesn't seem to matter what we don't eat or which mus- cles we flay with cruel and unusu- al punishment -- the world contin- ues.to be full of fatties. Aside from one or two of those madden- ingly skinny exceptions the Gods throw in to tease us, virtually everyone I know would love to New access road a good Dear Editor, I'm. « weitaingi.this letter to bring. to your attention a mat- ter I find extremely disturbing. In the past month I've observed an access road being con- structed onto Highway Ly, at the east end of Schreiber. At this Location there is merging traf- fic from the highway pounds tor most of us. Just to make up for all the overeating we'll be doing at Christmas. If you've read this far anticipat- ing a miracle diet or magical exer- cise plan that will allow you to do up the buttons on your favorite Suit Once again, sorry amigo. I'm in the same gravy boat you are. But I do have a little some- thing that might make you feel better about yourself. This'll work for anybody who's broader of beam and bulgier of bay window than they'd like to be. I don't care if the excess blubber your packing weighs in at two, 20 or even 200 pounds. No matter how fat you may be you always have one thing going for you: You're not Walter Hudson. Walter Hudson is 42 years old. He lives in Hempstead, New York. He has curly black hair and big sad brown eyes. Walter Hud- son doesn't know exactly how much he weighs. In fact he does- n't know even within a hundred pounds, how much he weighs. __ He does know a couple of to and town (including school buses), a snow- plow turn-around and' a dangerous corner. The.=sité:. of this entrance is to allow large vehicles to transfer minerals from the mine to CPR trains. I've been made to believe there will be approximately Sox trucks a day turning things, though -- he knows he has a weight problem. His weight problem is so bad he hasn't been outside his apartment for the past 17 years. He can't get through the door. Walter Hudson is the fattest man.in the world. ; He lives in bed, mostly, and probably would have died there, a mere neighborhood freak, if he hadn't got wedged in his own bed- room doorway and attracted the attention of New. York police, fire and medical workers last month. They levered him out of the doorway and back to his bed, but by: that time the Press had got wind of Walter Hudson, he and his massive body became wire copy and television fodder. Which may just prove to be Walter Hudson's salvation. Dick Gregory heard about Walter Hud- son's plight on the evening news. You remember Dick Gregory. Back in the late sixties he forsook a lucrative career as a night club comedian to become a kind of Gandhi-ish black militant. He went on several prolonged fasts in Cr. this in and out road. I feel this entrance is extremely hazardous to local and highway traffic and should be looked into before an accident occurs. Rose Marie Renaud. Gregory works out of Bermuda now. He runs a weight loss clinic there. Call it humanitarianism, call it PR Opportunism, but Dick Grego- ry has hitched his wagon to the flesh barge of Walter Hudson's body. He has vowed, that by putting Walter on a strict diet, he'll bring his weight down to around 200 pounds. It's going to be a long haul. Nobody knows exactly how much Walter weighs -- he's broken every scale they've ever winkled under him -- but they reckon he's around the 1,200-pound mark. Which means he's only_ half a ton away from his ideal weight. Next time you get depressed about your spare tire or you love